Visiting Scholars

Every year, the Simon Dubnow Institute hosts internationally and nationally known scholars, as well as a number of post-doctoral associates and doctoral candidates. They engage in intensive dialogue and exchange of ideas with the Institute’s staff, present lectures on their own research projects for open discussion, and contribute in diverse ways to the teaching at Leipzig University.

 

You can apply for a guest scholarship either in English or German. Please, send the documents mentioned below by email or by mail to our institute's address:

 

- current CV including list of publications

- duplicates of relevant degrees

- detailed description of research project (max. 2,000 words)

 

Visiting Scholars 2013

 

Mohamed Ahmed (Mansoura University, Egypt)

Arabic Use of the Iraqi Jews Novelists: A Stylistic Analysis of Selected Early and Late Hebrew Novels

1 April 2012 to 31 March 2014

 

Chaim Beer (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)

On the Footsteps of S. Y. Agnon in Leipzig

16 October 2012 to 15 March 2013

 

Yuval Rubovitch (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

Der Revisionismus in der Sozialdemokratie im deutschen Kaiserreich und sein Verhältnis zum Zionismus

19 November 2012 to 31 Januar 2013

 

Sasha Senderovich (Rutgers University, N. J., USA)

The Red Promised Land: Sites of Soviet Jewish Culture.

3 to 28 May 2013

 

Samuel Kessler (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C., USA)

Jews, Christians, and the Practice of Theology in 19th Century Leipzig

1 to 30 June 2013

 

Alison Schachter (Vanderbilt University, Tenn., USA)

Gender, Secularism, and Jewish Modernity

8 July to 4 August 2013

 

Anson Rabinbach (Princeton University, N. J., USA)

Concepts that Came in from the Cold: Totalitarianism, Genocide, Total War

1 October to 31 December 2013

Review